I am currently Professor of Economics at Trento University, Italy, and affiliated with Euricse, European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises in Trento. I am associate editor of JEOD, Journal of Entrepreneurial and Organizational Diversity. My research focuses on: - The institutionalist theory of the firm, business economics, organizational studies, personnel economics, and human resource management (HRM) as applied to third-sector organizations (social enterprises, nonprofit organizations, cooperative enterprises); - The philosophy of economics and sociology, as related to critical realism, the methodology of institutional economics, social systems theory, and complexity theory, as related to political and social philosophy in cooperative studies, the economics of institutions, and business ethics; - Local economic development focusing on the social economy (local economic development; social, economic, and environmental sustainability of local systems; local welfare systems); - Empirical studies on HRM relations, managerial practices, worker well-being, and worker motivations in third-sector organizations; - Financial economics of cooperative enterprises, dealing with capital structure, self-financed accumulation of capital, undercapitalization, collective reserves, and tradable shares in cooperative enterprises; - Labor contracts under asymmetric information in capitalist and cooperative enterprises.